Fair Winds and Rough Seas Story of the Holm Shipping Company By Alan A. Kirk.

Publisher: Reed, 1975. First Edition. Good hardback with jacket, inscription inside front board, some bumping to edges, fading and marks to boards. Jacket is well rubbed, chipped & marked. 260 pages. Pictorial red dust jacket over grey boards. Contains black and white photographic plates.

The story of the Holm Shipping Company. The little ships of Holm have been familiar visitors to every port in New Zealand ever since 1880, when Swedish-born Ferdinand Holm bought a share in the barque Malay. His grandson Captain John Holm, built up a fleet of ships that traded not only in New Zealand's coastal waters but also across to Australia, to the Pacific Islands and ventured into the Antarctic. This book tells the story, and it is a brave one. The Holms had to face and beat keen competition and economic recessions as well as the built-in hazards of wind and weather.

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